A new report from McKinsey Quarterly says:

Chinese nonprofits face funding shortfalls and a skewed distribution of resources. In 2005, charitable contributions in China, including funds given to the government for disaster relief, totaled some 0.05 percent of the nation's GDP, compared with 0.09 percent in India, 0.84 in the United Kingdom, and nearly 2 percent in the United States.

Very little overall contributions come from domestic sources: we estimate that international organizations and corporations account for 80 percent of all donations to Chinese charities.⁴ (That figure is just 0.5 percent in the United States.) Donations from domestic companies are particularly low: a sampling of the leading ones indicates that, on average, they contribute less than 0.3 percent of their posttax income to charity, compared with more than 2 percent for most Fortune 500 corporations.

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